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PHP, which is a recursive acronym for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor, is a popular server-side scripting language used for web development. It is an HTML embedded language and finds its use in a wide range of websites and web apps.
The most popular use of PHP has been in the world of Content Management Systems (CMS). The most used CMS software in the world, WordPress, uses PHP. Other popular CMS software like Drupal and Joomla also use PHP and various PHP libraries.
A user needs to install PHP on his Ubuntu 20.04 machine if he/she wishes to install any such software which uses PHP, or if the user wants to develop his/her own web application.
In this article, we will see how to install PHP on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
Installation
The PHP interpreter, command-line interpreter and all required libraries are a part of the php package on Ubuntu 20.04. Before we get started, let’s first update the repositories.
